The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw (TNJT.com)

Friday, May 30, 2003

I'm always refining in my mind how best to mobile-y weblog...be able to report to the world from anywhere. I bought a new Apple TiBook to have full featured, multi-media capability, with weblog publishing flexibility...my own Personal Broadcast Network (scroll down to Vince Outlaw: Freelance Weblogger). And as I use it as an example in Freelance Weblogger piece, the Playboy Jazz Festival is coming again and I want to really weblog the festival this year. And I'm realizing that toting around the G4 and whipping it out to blog the festival is just not feasible. But this is an event that just begs for real-time weblogging. Here's an idea for doing just that AND having the party that I know I want to have (and always do) when I go up there in June.

I need a Bluetooth-enabled Camera Phone (initial salivation). Camera Phone for being able to take pictures anywhere my feet can take me in the festival (and we do go lots of places in the Bowl ), add small captions, and email to the PBJF Weblog, available to the world. Phone for being able to use something like Audblog, like we already are playing with at TNJT Audblog, to post live audio reports from anywhere, from the top of the Bowl where the REAL party is, to the press-room backstage. Oh, the phone also comes in handy for calling in Live to Jazz 88 on what's happening. Bluetooth-enabled so when I need to use the portable, Bluetooth-enabled Apple Tibook for those big nasty computing jobs, the Phone becomes the Modem. Sounds like I've found the must-need device for really covering the festival this year. And taking my own mobile blogging efforts to the next level.

Oh...and it would be nice to have Bluetooth-enabled PDA in my other pocket in case I want to do a little more writing about photos or other things as they are happening and post those to the weblog. Again the Bluetooth-enabled Camera Phone would change up and serve as Modem, this time for the PDA. This is another totally mobile solution (I have lots of pockets) that adds quite a bit of capability to the mix.

But the Camera Phone is now a must have. Wouldn't it be cool if I could find a camera store, phone store, camera-phone maker to sponsor my efforts by providing the camera-phone and connectivity?! How do I make THAT happen?!! I could supply the weblog and the will.
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